The lute on which this model is closely based is a very beautiful conversion in the Fenton House collection in London. The yew body, perhaps of an 8c lute, was made c. 1590 by Marx Unverdorben, Venice, and the elegant 13c swan neck replacement for the original neck was made by Buchstetter of Regensburg in 1747. He made an especially nicely sculpted swan neck and pegbox and it has the usual cambered fingerboard, and a treble rider. It makes a powerful 13c lute, very suited to the grand music of Weiss and Bach.

Shown here in the triple-headed version, the swan-neck is similar.